| Give Me Back My People We made this CD to support The Collective Lawsuits for A-bomb Related Diseases Recognition The half of the sale will be used to help the law suits.  Sankichi Toge (Poet)Sankichi Toge is one of the most respected poets who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He was born in 1917. In 1951, he published "Collection of atomic bomb poems" in which the poem "Give me back my people" is written as a prelude. Trueman Statement (1950), which indicated possibility of the United Sates using atomic bomb in Korean War, led him to write this poem. In 1953, he died from atomic bomb disease during surgery. Joseph R. O'Donnell @(Photographer) He lives in Nashville, Tennesy. After he served in World War II as a sergeant, he arrived in Japan as an official photographer for the American aerial bombing investigating team of the occupation forces. He walked through Hiroshima and Nagasaki for about seven months and witnessed the devastation caused by the atomic bombs. After he returned to the U.S., he served as a photographer for the White House for four presidents from Truman to Johnson. Mr. O'donnell specially permits using this photograph for activities supporting the atomic bomb victims.  uI had never before witnessed the obvious military influence on the young
until I watched this boy bring his dead brother to a cremation site. He
stood at attention, only the biting of his lower lip betraying his emotions.
I wanted to go to him to comfort him, but I was afraid that if I did so,
his strength would crumble.vJoseph R. O'Donnell. September 1945  Kumiko Yokoi (Singer and Songwriter)Kumiko Yokoi graduated from Kunitachi Collage of Music, singing course. She toured many countries around the world including Vietnam, South Africa, Nicaragua and Ireland . Her belief is to deliver the music to people who need it. She has sang for more than a million people in total not only by performing in concert halls but also by singing songs on the spot for supporting people suffering from drug induced disease, environmental destruction, discrimination. In 1988, she has sent to Limerick University, Ireland as a Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs Oversea Artist Trainee. In 2004, she marked her 35th year anniversary as a singer, and had a concert tour including a concert for aiding children suffering from Agent Orange in Vietnam, and sixteen concerts in Japan In May 2005, she received "International Peace Amity Order" from Vietnamese government. In June, 2005, she was listed as one of 1000 women nominated for the Nobel peace prize by The project 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. Hibakusha Campaign at Present <Concerted Lawsuits Action for Recognition of the A-bomb Diseases by the Government> Many Hibkakusha, people who suffered from the A-bombs in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, are carrying on their concerted action of lawsuits in many cities in Japan calling for the cancellation of the Governmentfs decision of refusing to recognize the diseases of the Hibakusha as having been caused by the A-bombs. They determined to file suits, wanting the government to recognize that their cancers, or any other diseases tormenting them, were the A-bombs caused The number of the A-bomb sufferers totals about 273,000 in Japan. Many of them are suffering from different kinds of ill. Of them, however, only some 2000 are recognized as contracting gdiseases caused by the A-bombh. The government believes that the only radiation released at the moment of explosion of the bomb can cause the damage to the human body, and thus has totally ignored the effects of radioactive fallout or of other residual radioactivity. This position of the government amounts to a claim that nuclear weapons, even if used, would not cause much damage. The International Citizensf Conference will present various problems resulted from the A-bombings that were revealed in the current lawsuits, and help develop public voices for the drastic review of the Hibakusha-aid-policies and for a switch of the current policy on nuclear weapons. (From NO NUKES WEB SITE) |